SURREALISM

And the artists:

RENE MAGRITTE and

Salvador Dali

• Surrealism is a 20th-century literary and artistic movement that attempted to express the workings of the subconscious by using fantastic imagery and the juxtaposition of subject matter.

• Surrealism is a term that refers to a heightened sense of reality; translated from French, the term means: “over-realism”-- a vision of reality that supersedes the mundane!

• Dream-like

• Out of the

ordinary…

Rene Magritte was a Belgian

surrealist painter.

He painted in a realistic style. While the objects appear to the viewer to

be recognizable, the composition of those recognizable objects appears fantastic.

Magritte was deeply

interested in the

process of thought,

and his paintings

tend to raise the

awareness of the

viewer to their own

thought processes.

• More often than not, Magritte chose ordinary things from which to construct his works - trees, chairs, tables, doors, windows, shoes, shelves, landscapes, people. He wanted to be understood via these ordinary things, but he also wanted to shock and surprise his viewers.

Salvador Dali 1904-1989

Dali was a leader of the

Surrealist Movement, but

begin to clash with the rest

of the Surrealist and was

expelled from the group in

1934. His most well known

painting is of the image of

melting clocks called,

“Persistence of Memory”

Persistence of Memory

Surrealistic Techniques - “How to make the

ordinary look extraordinary”

• Scale

• Levitation

• Juxtaposition

• Dislocation

• Transparency

• Transformation

SCALE

Changing an object’s

scale, or relative size.

SCALE

Personal Values

SCALE

SCALE

LEVITATION

Floating objects that

don’t normally float

LEVITATION

LEVITATION

JUXTAPOSITION

Joining two images

together in impossible

combinations

JUXTAPOSITION

JUXTAPOSITION

DISLOCATION

Taking an object from its usual

environment and placing it in

an unfamiliar one

DISLOCATION

DISLOCATION

TRANSPARENCY

Making objects transparent that

are not usually transparent

TRANSPARENCY

TRANSPARENCY

TRANSFORMATION

Changing objects in

unusual way

TRANSFORMATION

TRANSFORMATION

Use the ideas of Surrealism to create a

unique perspective drawing.

Linear Perspective

Linear Perspective is based on the idea that

receding lines will meet at a common point on

the horizon

The concept of perspective was developed

during the Italian Renaissance

Artists became interested in

depicting the natural world around

them.

The Renaissance lasted from c1400

to c1600

Before the

Renaissance, in the

Middle Ages, most

paintings depicted

heavenly figures

worshipping Christ.

The backgrounds in

these paintings was

usually gold

The Renaissance marked a huge leap forward in

artists ability to show naturalism and depth in

paintings and sculpture.

M. C. Escher was a Dutch artist who loved to

play with the theory of linear perspective in

order to create visual puzzles.

Perspective can be drawn from

various points of view.

Normal Perspective Scene

Surreal Perspectives

Sale’s Surreal Perspective

Drawings

Today’s Activity: Draw boxes in 1 point perspective

2 point perspective boxes

(practice sheets will be a grade)